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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 8, 2017 17:35:15 GMT
The quality of this recording is a testament to the longevity of properly archived reel to reel tape. I originally recorded it in 1981 from an on air radio broadcast on my Teac 3440, flew it into digital last night from the same machine and encoded the recording into 256 bitrate MP3 tracks, ITunes tagged. Contents (in addition to indexed tracks of Ian's between song talk) : The concert intro music (which is fantastic)! Black Sunday Crossfire Songs From The Wood Hunting Girl The Pine Martens Jig Heavy Horses Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day Working John, Working Joe Locomotive Breath/Black Sunday reprise Aqualung Bungle In The Jungle ___________ Tull is on fire!!! The new arrangement, in particular, featuring Eddie Jobson's CS-80 synth of "Locomotive Breath" is particularly stunning as is the power version of Working John, Working Joe with that big synth low note. Black Sunday is total power and The Pine Marten's Jig is breakneck tempo insane! Happy New Year! www.mediafire.com/folder/k6cggro34ii3a/Jethro_Tull_A_LIVE_1981(note - Black Sunday just fixed).
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 9, 2017 14:35:02 GMT
The quality of this recording is a testament to the longevity of properly archived reel to reel tape. I originally recorded it in 1981 from an on air radio broadcast on my Teac 3440, flew it into digital last night from the same machine and encoded the recording into 256 bitrate MP3 tracks, ITunes tagged. Contents (in addition to indexed tracks of Ian's between song talk) : The concert intro music (which is fantastic)! Black Sunday Crossfire Songs From The Wood Hunting Girl The Pine Martens Jig Heavy Horses Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of The New Day Working John, Working Joe Locomotive Breath/Black Sunday reprise Aqualung Bungle In The Jungle ___________ Tull is on fire!!! The new arrangement, in particular, featuring Eddie Jobson's CS-80 synth of "Locomotive Breath" is particularly stunning as is the power version of Working John, Working Joe with that big synth low note. Black Sunday is total power and The Pine Marten's Jig is breakneck tempo insane! Happy New Year! www.mediafire.com/folder/k6cggro34ii3a/Jethro_Tull_A_LIVE_1981(note - Black Sunday just fixed). Nice one Sir. Now on my hard drive.
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 9, 2017 23:11:46 GMT
Nice one Sir. Now on my hard drive. Very glad to hear you're enjoying it, MDF.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 10, 2017 9:01:21 GMT
Nice one Sir. Now on my hard drive. Very glad to hear you're enjoying it, MDF. I do try to listen to a couple of "boots" a week, either on CD or the few I have on hard drive. It can be very interesting and I have a secret admiration for those people who managed to get concert recordings before the advent of minidiscs and, before that, good quality cassette recorders. How they managed to smuggle in reel to reel recorders and then record in stereo using two individual mics is beyond me.
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Post by rredmond on Jan 10, 2017 16:04:50 GMT
sound is awesome! Thank you! --Ron--
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 10, 2017 20:08:56 GMT
Great recording indeed Thank You VERY MUCH ! When this was broadcast in 1981, did you have any info on the location of this performance?
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 10, 2017 21:46:05 GMT
Great recording indeed Thank You VERY MUCH ! When this was broadcast in 1981, did you have any info on the location of this performance?[/quote] I have no idea other than Ian saying during the recording it's the last night of their US tour (for "A). So I'm sure some tour database would have that info. Glad you liked it, J.
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Post by JTull 007 on Jan 11, 2017 1:39:44 GMT
I have no idea other than Ian saying during the recording it's the last night of their US tour (for "A). So I'm sure some tour database would have that info. Glad you liked it, J. Could this be the date you remember for the broadcast? Broadcast by KBFH on 16/3/81
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 6:16:56 GMT
Could this be the date you remember for the broadcast? Broadcast by KBFH on 16/3/81Hi J, I have no recall whatsoever about the date of the broadcast. I do know it was not KBFH where I was; No such station in the Baltimore Washington DC corridor. It was a nationwide radio network named Westwood 1 that broadcasted the concert which locally aired on either DC 101 or 98 Rock FM. My God, I was 28 back then, different world and different life. I remember driving my car and hearing a radio promo for the airing that evening, so I stayed home and had the teac machine all patched up into the receiver to record it well in advance and I of course sat there the whole time because I had to turn the tape reel over near the first side end on commercial break. This forum reminded me of that tape and the night before I posted the tracks here, I pulled out the two boxes of all my master tapes (of my collective solo recordings from the 70's up to 1990 when I first went digital and retired the Teac that yet resides in my studio covered in plastic and still works) ( though it could stand a partial overhaul, new heads and belt that's on the to do list of probably never...one dicey relay on one of the four DBX noise reduction cards...a well placed thump now makes it decode on the rare occasion it gets used anymore since I flew most all my past songs into digital multitrack years back with it :>) Anyway, I was very excited to have found the Tull tape once again and stayed up 3/4 of the night with it. Amusingly, the last time I recorded anything on the Teac was a night four years ago, give or take when on a sudden burst of nostalgia, I set up the short wave radio my family had around when I was a kid and found two really strange spoken broadcasts on it, so I threw a 10 inch reel on the Teac and recorded the short wave over mic, embedding it all into a new Symphony Orchestra work (direct playback from the full score realized digitally) which I composed entirely around the surreal weirdness I captured that night on the Teac 3440 Reel to Reel. Magic always happened for me one way or another with that machine that I yet love so dearly as it was so integral to my past.
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 7:24:30 GMT
sound is awesome! Thank you! --Ron-- You're most welcome, Ron and thank you! The tape only suffered a couple of small dropouts and a few calendared portions in well over 30 years of storage. No EQ, nothing, as is.
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 7:30:37 GMT
I do try to listen to a couple of "boots" a week, either on CD or the few I have on hard drive. It can be very interesting and I have a secret admiration for those people who managed to get concert recordings before the advent of minidiscs and, before that, good quality cassette recorders. How they managed to smuggle in reel to reel recorders and then record in stereo using two individual mics is beyond me. Me too, I can't imagine how they managed to sneak recording equipment in and then still not be caught, Maddog.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2017 8:49:49 GMT
Great recording indeed Thank You VERY MUCH ! When this was broadcast in 1981, did you have any info on the location of this performance? This from the relevant page at www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/
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Post by maddogfagin on Jan 11, 2017 9:19:36 GMT
I do try to listen to a couple of "boots" a week, either on CD or the few I have on hard drive. It can be very interesting and I have a secret admiration for those people who managed to get concert recordings before the advent of minidiscs and, before that, good quality cassette recorders. How they managed to smuggle in reel to reel recorders and then record in stereo using two individual mics is beyond me. Me too, I can't imagine how they managed to sneak recording equipment in and then still not be caught, Maddog. Quite a few photos on the web of the Grateful Dead being recorded from the audience but then they allowed such things to happen didn't they.
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Post by rredmond on Jan 11, 2017 10:07:22 GMT
Great story atomicsynth! No clue what exactly a teac is, but I can feel how you feel about it! We're sorta-kinda neighbors as I'm in South Jersey. Thanks again for sharing, I've listened to it twice already --Ron--
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 14:37:02 GMT
Great story atomicsynth! No clue what exactly a teac is, but I can feel how you feel about it! We're soya-kinda neighbors as I'm in South Jersey. Thanks again for sharing, I've listened to it twice already --Ron-- Hi Ron, it's a four track semi pro reel to reel tape recorder. Glad you like the recording! I go to Wildwood NJ for vacation most summers, have since I was a kid.
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 15:12:31 GMT
The Teac 3440 originally of the 70's with it's companion RX-9 DBX unit. The red thing to the right is a head demagnatizer. I finally got the syntax right, Ron. Whew....
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Post by atomicsynth on Jan 11, 2017 15:28:20 GMT
Quite a few photos on the web of the Grateful Dead being recorded from the audience but then they allowed such things to happen didn't they. Crazy!!!!
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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 11, 2017 18:03:45 GMT
The Grateful Dead always had a 'Tapers' area set aside...of course. if you took enough LSD, you could wander into the 'Tapirs' section...a whole other story. On my way back to my seat, from the tapers and tapirs sections, I often bumbled into the 'hydrocephallic two-legged lizards' section. Scary.
Great memories of first tape recorders ( early cassette decks for me) as a kid in the mid sixties...poised by the AM radio to capture a song or, invariably, taping our own radio shows with best friends. Somewhere rotting in a Colorado landfill are some very funny 'Certron' brand cassette tapes filled with the astute comments and politically incorrect dribblings of 11 year old philosophers/ nascent rock fanatics mixed with 'must have' songs like 'Taxi' by Harry Chapin or 'Itchycoo park' by the Small Faces'.
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